Language: History & General Works

Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...

This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language. Unconvinci...

The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English langua...

A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis ...

Originally published in 1927, The World of Imagery is a study of the use of metaphor, simile, and other forms of literary imagery from the ancient ...

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...

This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the d...

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific me...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of TED talks as a digital-multimodal video genre, exploring the ways in which myriad rhetorical, structur...

No man of letters savers the ABC's, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz, is hearty...

Uncovering the complexity of linguistic diversity and semiotic creativity, this book examines the issues of power, affect, and identity in both phy...

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text ...

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fan...

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text ...

Assessment in Second Language Pronunciation highlights the importance of pronunciation in the assessment of second language speaking proficiency. L...

First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close anal...

Maintaining English as the sole language of knowledge production and dissemination in universities that enrol students who speak multiple languages...

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.D. manuscript residing in Salisbury Cathedral. As a penitential manual, it joi...

Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages spoken and written by Jews over the past ...

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study o...

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harv...

First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close anal...

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorica...

This concise guide outlines core theoretical and methodological developments of the growing field of Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis.The volume u...

Linguistics and Law offers a clear and concise introduction to making sense of the law through linguistics. Drawing on lexical semantics, syntax, a...

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study o...

As an issue of controversy, corrective or negative feedback has been a much debated and investigated topic in theory and research on second-languag...

In this book, leading scholars in the field of World Englishes (WE) offer fresh perspectives in re-thinking issues on the use of English as a globa...

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creativ...

Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker.There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia from iconic Australianisms...

People in the Nordic states Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In ...

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, Orie...

A chronological illustrated analysis of fifty-eight years of work by the collective Art & Language   Art & Language is an artists collectiv...

This collection critically examines the practical impacts of machine translation (MT) through the lens of an ethics of care. It addresses the ideol...